The Amp Hour

Magical Fire Bags

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  • Chris had a successful meetup in Chicago. It's called "3H" if you're in town and would like to join.
  • Chris is trying to get a the "Bodge" shirt made again, since he stupidly forgot to get one last time.
  • Dave has been workin on a Nixie project, part 1, part 2, part 3
  • The most dangerous writing app is a site that erases your work if you stop typing.
  • Dave is working with an ESP8266 module, the Wemos d1 mini.
  • There is a layer of internet that lots of IoT devices use, similar to the service from Particle (formerly Spark).
  • Pebble is shutting down. Their internet layer will shut down as well. We had Andrew, CTO of Pebble, on the show in the past.
  • Bryce from Indie.vc writes about getting pitched "Trillion" dollar plans before they even started.
  • The 3D printing revolution that wasn't. An indepth article about MakerBot.
  • We had Zach Smith on in the past. The documentary Print The Legend (on Netflix) was also a good look at the situation.
  • Ken Sherriff wrote (in 2013) about how the Intel manual has more pages than a 6502 has transistors.
  • Dave talks about databooks. He proposes a hackathon/reality tv show idea where the people can't use the internet.
  • ADUCM350
  •  Qibec - 1-bit, 1-instruction CPU made from transistors
  • Instrumental takes a look inside the Galaxy Note 7.
  • Collin wrote in when the Macrofab folks were on the show talking about batteries last time. He called them "Magical Fire Bags". He also sent a link about dielectrics.
  • Supercon talks
    • Akiba
    • Nadya
    • Sprite
    • Ben talk
    • Ben's video about 360 slowmo. We had David Kronstein on the show last week.
    • Alan talked about the prototyping method when he was on embedded.
    • Ben's Backscatter video
    • There is an electric/hydrogen truck by Nikola motors
    • Most US manufacturing jobs lost to technology, not trade
      • Next week we'll be talking to Avidan Ross, head of Root.vc. Write in to our subreddit with questions about money.
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